"They are lovely, pocket-sized works of design art to look at, each less than 60 pages... they may even be works of literary art... thoughtful, erudite, (and) amusing." Listener, Sept 14, 2002

These books marked the beginning of the publication of more than 12 essays to date. The first three were published in September, 2002. The series editor is Lloyd Jones (author of The Book of Fame and Biografi.)